Thursday, July 01, 2010

Write because it is there. Write about facts and real stuff and write from your imagination. Write daily, weekly or monthly. Write on the bus, train or at the airport. Write on your iPad or Moleskine or on the back of an envelope. Write to people, about people and thank people. Keep writing: it'll access the deep, inner you which has been shackled since those first sharp words from a teacher when you were just six and three-quarters. You don't mind: you're on the return path. There's no stopping you now. Write.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Friday, September 25, 2009

If you’re writing a thriller
and you have hit a block, try introducing any one of these lines to free things up:

We’re not who you think
we are.

The premises were
clinically clean apart from a swab of DNA we found on some gum near the door.

The profile suggest he’s
a Rolling Stones loving loner.

Are you saying it could
be one of us?

I want every CCTV film
across the city of London for the last 24 hours scrutinised frame by frame.
Now.

Recognise this badge? I’m
from the Bureau and this is now our case.

You have until noon tomorrow.
Nobody knows you are on the case and you are totally off the unit’s grid. If
anything goes wrong I will deny all knowledge. The bag contains a gun, a
passport and 1 million Euros. Everything else to do with you has been wiped. To
say good luck would be optimistic.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Friday, May 08, 2009

Mine was light blue with a dent just above the driver’s side headlight that could light up the tops of trees as you drove – that is if there were trees to see in the neighborhood. Two doors and bucket seats with a chrome shifter in the middle – 327/350 engine, 4-barrel carb, and a Chevy nameplate.